# Bleeding Edge - Paperback

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by **Thomas Pynchon** (Author)

**A _New York Times_ Notable Book**

"Brilliantly written...a joy to read..._Bleeding Edge_ is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, _The Washington Post_

"Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, _The New York Times Book Review_

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th.

Maxine Tarnow runs a fine little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side. All is ticking over nice and normal, until she starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler's aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, and an array of bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.

Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?

Hey. Who wants to know?

### Author Biography

Thomas Pynchon is the author of _V._; _The Crying of Lot 49_; _Gravity's Rainbow_; _Slow Learner_, a collection of short stories; _Vineland_; _Mason & Dixon_; _Against the Day_; _Inherent Vice_; _Bleeding Edge_; and _Shadow Ticket_. He received the National Book Award for _Gravity's Rainbow_ in 1974.

**Number of Pages:** 496

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** August 26, 2014

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Literary, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Technological, Thrillers, Women Sleuths

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